Museum
Croatian Natural History Museum
Natural history collections of minerals, fossils and animals, including a fragment of a 1751 meteorite.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb centres on one small object: a polished sliver of iron and the cast beside it, known as the Zagreb Iron. It goes back to a May evening in seventeen fifty-one, when people near the village of Hrašćina saw something cross the sky. Along the way you'll meet a careful church commission, an empress in Vienna, and scholars who refused to believe in stones from the sky. Best heard standing close to the meteorite display.
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